This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Jackie Leonard and in the early hours of Thursday, the 16th of May,

these are our main stories.

The Prime Minister of Slovakia, Robert Fizzo, is in a critical condition

following an attempt on his life, a 71-year-old suspect has been arrested. The Israeli

Defence Minister has criticized the failure to draw up a plan for the future of Gaza in a rare public sign of division in the war cabinet. And the Dutch nationalist politician Giet Wilders says he's reached a deal with three other parties to form a coalition government six months after his surprise election victory.

Also in this podcast, I'd never notice photography until I got sober in 1990 and I went

to a friend's chateau in the south of France and he was buying photographs and I went

all of these are so beautiful and I noticed the

art form for the first time. The British singer Elton John on a major new

photography exhibition from his own collection.

And we begin in the town of Hanlova in Slovakia, the scene of an assassination attempt on the Prime Minister

Robert Fizzo outside a community centre.

A gunman opened fire as Mr Fizzo was leaving a government meeting on Wednesday.

Police have arrested a suspect.

Slovak media say he is a 71 year old man.

The Interior Minister Matush-Sutai Eshok spoke to reporters at the hospital where Mr Fizos being treated.

Today after a meeting of the government in Hanlova an attack was committed on the

Prime Minister, the perpetrator of five times and the Prime Minister is in critical condition.

In the first place I would like to assure the public that we will make everything

that is in our power to investigate this heinous crime. We are doing this at the

moment as we speak.

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